urban

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WTF is going on with the weather recently?

Middle of March and it is snowing in N.Ireland, and has been for the past 5 hours

22BUK

Global warming?

ALi-B

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My buzzword is "climate shift"

Matteeboy

I surfed in the heaviest hail storm I've seen in the UK today. It bloody hurt!

Worlasshasansti

Is it not still winter? It's winter in the proper northeast ( Newcastle ) until about may/June lol

Mick

mgcvk

Still Winter. Last year was unusually warm this time of year.

Turbohot

It snowed at random in North Wales in last two weeks. It has been sleeting and pouring down with rain since yesterday. I bet daffodils are really confused.

boomer

Yup, it is still winter (with a few more days to go) - despite the fact that the Met Office decided a couple of years ago that the first of March was spring, no doubt to skew their global warming/climate change/global wierding/planetary apocalypse "facts" in order to tax us all a lot more!

mb

dpb

Isn't it always a bit like that in norern iron

f1_fan

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Nope according to urban in the Winter tyres thread it only gets one or two cold days a year

SiPie

Nothing unusual about snow at this time of year.

Would expect to see snow falling up until mid April here

Moz_Rb5

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sunny and quite warm in the sun in south west wales

urban

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Please......

Never have I said it gets cold one or two days a year

urban

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Nope, you could probably count on one hand the number of times it snows here

Snow yesterday, blue sky and sunshine today

alcazar

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In 1966 it put two inches of snow on the streets in London at Easter.

Jamz3k

It's been chilly today but otherwise a very pretty day. I spent a good part of the afternoon looking out over the lough from my spareroom window listening the birds on full song. It was very calming.

What wasn't calming is the fact the Ikea seat in my spareroom is a million times more comfy than the 2 seater sofa i bought from DFS at 9times the price.

Yesterday was madness snow wise. I literally got home from work and within an hour the weather had completely changed and my car was hidden under all the snow! It was a rather good excuse for not cleaning the car though.

alcazar

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Starting raining at about 1pm here, turned into sleet, then snow. Put about an inch of snow down, then rain again. The only snow left is now on grassed areas.

Amount of snow actually FORECAST: 0%.

SiPie

Well we've got 2 days of solid snow forecast for Monday/Tuesday with windchill making -10 so definitely a sign that spring is indeed in the air

Martin2005

Yep 'no doubt'

I heard that next year they are actually going to get rid of winter altogether

alcazar

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last week, the ten-day forecasts gave milder temperatures from the 21st, with max/min temperatures between 6 and 12 degrees.

No more snow was forecast.

Now we have had snow here, plus more is forecast for tomorrow.
Temperatures are now not expected to go over 4 degrees for the foreseeable future

So what happened?
And why didn't they know?

SiPie

Sorry Alcazar, it was forecast.

I thought about taking my winter tyres off a couple of weeks ago, checked the long range forecast (netweather.tv) and they forecast plenty of snow for this week.

Certainly for up here anyway

alcazar

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Not for us

In fact MUCH milder weather was forecast for thursday on, with no more snow and a little rain.

Now it forecasts snow tomorrow and no mild weather all week.....

zip106

And they still haven't got over that little event....







I'm totally pissed off with the weather now, and I actually like it cold.
It's just gone on too long.

Moz_Rb5

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Still dry and sunny down here, I was mowing my lawn today

RA Dunk

Temperature of -1 with a 45 MPH wind made it fooking freezing where I'm at on the East coast today, did snow for a bit twice but it didn't hang around.

Matteeboy

Lovely down here. Mowed the lawn yesterday, surfed watching a stunning sunset tonight.

Saturday was minging though.

urban

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It has gone on too long now.
OK, perhaps still expected conditions for the highlands, but not normal for the rest of the UK

f1_fan

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I love it like this. Much better having cold crisp sunny days with occasional snow fall rather than wet and miserable.

alcazar

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Aye....but we've got both.

urban

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Yep, so have we which is not normal for this part of the UK.
Today it is freezing cold, bitter strong winds, and snow flurries/rain